A Korean venture firm has developed the world's first Linux-based mobile phone, which the company says can easily handle multimedia functions such as video conferencing, and playback and transmission of music files. The phone runs on Palm Palm's Linux-based operating system called Tynux.

This release fixes problems found in the earlier 1.4.x family of releases, improves stability, and includes support for new hardware. NetBSD 1.4.3 is a patch release of the 1.4 release branch.

Following the release of FreeBSD 4.1.1 in September, 2000, many bugs were fixed, important security issues dealt with, and a conservative number of new features added.

BSD is likely to rival Linux very soon in total number of users, and the BSD community is primping for center stage.

BSD is likely to rival Linux very soon in total number of users, and the BSD community is primping for center stage.

"You can leverage Linux to provide massive cost savings. Linux can save money and save people. The best thing about it, is you can just put it in a corner and forget it."

Founded by group of computer scientists and entrepreneurs from the University of York in Great Britain, Vita Nuova has spent the past four years building a company around an operating system that, at least from the current status quo perspective, seems about as crazy as its name: the Plan 9 Operating System.

Emacspeak is a software package aimed at the blind - one that claims to provide seamless blending of all aspects of the Internet experience into one single audio desktop. A new Linux distribution, Ocularis, aims to create a complete Audio User Interface, create a complete Linux distribution, aimed at blind people.

SuSE Linux has announced the availability, of the latest distribution SuSE Linux 7.0 for computers

with Alpha CPUs.

Despite a recent price cut for the Applixware Office package from $99 per copy to $49, it couldn't compete in the marketplace with Sun's StarOffice, which costs nothing. And with KOffice -- also free -- rapidly becoming mature and stable enough to be useful for everyday work, it was time for Applix to throw in the desktop towel.